The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1887-07-01
Farmers and q High Tariff.

Mr.. ]. s. Moore, the famous Now Yark re-
former, has recently furnished some statistics
to the New York Times that every farmer in
the land should read and digest
Altar, of roses, a luxury, and perfume
with which the city belle scents her hand
kerchicf, her clothing and her person, is ad-
mitted to our ports free. 1t is not probable
that the laboring mans daughter ever saw
any of it unless it was adutera,ed but cas-
tor-oil, which is quite necessary to the labor
ing mans daughter in watermelon time is
taxed 1870 per cent. Neroli, or orange-tlower
water, for the rich mans daughter, pays no
tax, but linseed oil, that Is used to paint the
laboring mans cottage, pays duty of 90 per
cent. Diamonds, that bedeck the rich mans
daughter and stand for brains with the rich
mans son, pay 10 per cent, but common
window-glass that let's in the light and ex-
cludes the cold from the poor mans cottage
pays u duty OF 81 per cent. 1t was in glass,
common and plate, that Mr.. DePauw made
his $15,000000 by levying tax on every
window in America. Raw silk, that enters
into The manufacture Of the rich girls gown,
is not taxed at all, but raw wool, out of which
the poor girls dress is made, is taxed 45 per
cent. Jewelry, prime necessity of the rich,
is taxed but % per cent, but steel rails, over
which the poor farmers crop is carried to
market, are taxed IS per cent, and the rail
roads make the farmer pay The tax, too, and
don't you forget it. Gold studs, that make
radiant the dudes shirt front, are taxed % per
cent but horseshoe nails pay ZIG per cent.
Finest still wines in bottles, that cheer the
heart of the rich and never find their way
down the poor mans gullet, pay 90 per cent,
while the cheapest mixed wooden goods, that
poor people wear, pay n per cent, The fin
est thread lace, that embellishes the founces
and furbelows of the city bellies smock, pays
80 per cent, while the spool thread, that
sews on the buttons of the poor mans little
urchin, pays 81 per cent. The rich mans
daughter receives her lover in a room cover
ed with fine Aubusson and Administer car
pets, that pay AZ per cent, while the poor
girl, with cherries on her lips, mischief in her
dimples, roses on her cheeks, health in her
eyes and elasticity in her stcp-God bless
her-receives her sweetheart in the humble
cottage parlor, covered with common drug
gets, that pay SO per cent. The finest India
shawl, that none but the womankind of the
wealthy, and the very wealthy at that, can
afford, pays duty of 401 per cent. while the
common wooden shawl that keeps the pneu-
monia off the lungs of the poor widows lit
tie kid, pays SO per cent. Silk stockings,
that decorate the limbs of the rich mans
daughter, pay so per cent, while common
worsted stockings, that keep the cold off the
poor girls legs, pay 70 per cent. The finest
broadclotb, that makes the rich man appear
like the gentleman who turned Lazarus from
his gates and who was refused q drink of
water because lit, pays Al per cent, and
common cloth, that covers the poor man,
pays SO per cent Pate de toie graS, whatever
1t is-but I'll bet my bottom dollar it is some
thing that rich man either eats, drinks or
wears-pays 25 per cent, while galvanized
wire pays from 132 to 1856 per cent. I; but they
make wire in Pittsburgh Champagne, the
drink of the rich, in quart bottles, pays So
per cent, while bleached cotton, that the
poor man wants to make shirt for the baby,
pays 66i per cent. Curry, n rich mans blood,
or drink-I don't know which-pays no tax,
neither do olives or spices; but salt, that
cures tire farmers bacon, pays IS per cent.
The farmers and the men who labor in
shops should resolve to have the thing revis-
ed. All we want is TO knock down one stone
of the arch, and the whole structure will fall
Give us cheaper iron, cheaper clothing, and
cheaper necessaries of every description will
follow. But there is no sense in forming
new political party TO do this thing. The
old Democratic party has opposed the mons
ter in the past, and can be depended upon to
squelch it again in the future as it did forty
one years ago, when James X Polk was Pre-
sident.